We’re Witnessing a Whole New Genre of Celebrity Divorce. It Took a Very Specific Ex-Wife to Mastermind It.
Gone Girl’s “cool girl” monologue has been dissected to death, and for good reason; little else has so effectively captured the bind that straight women are in. In 2012, Gillian Flynn wrote about the burdens of the cool girl in her novel, and eventually, it was culturally canonized by Rosamund Pike in the 2014 film adaptation.
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Gone Girl’s “cool girl” monologue has been dissected to death, and for good reason; little else has so effectively captured the bind that straight women are in. In 2012, Gillian Flynn wrote about the burdens of the cool girl in her novel, and eventually, it was culturally canonized by Rosamund Pike in the 2014 film adaptation. “Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex,” Flynn wrote. “Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want.” The Cool Girl is ostensibly the girl all the guys want to date; the hope, for the Cool Girl, is to hold on to her coolness even after marriage and children harden her to her husband’s desires.
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- Gone Girl’s “cool girl” monologue has been dissected to death, and for good reason; little else has so effectively captured the bind that straight women are in. In 2012, Gillian Flynn wrote about the burdens of the cool girl in her novel, and eventually, it was culturally canonized by Rosamund Pike in the 2014 film adaptation.
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We’re Witnessing a Whole New Genre of Celebrity Divorce. It Took a Very Specific Ex-Wife to Mastermind It.
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